Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

in a different way. You have to get in the back door and let Godmove on the music in a sovereign way, and stir people's hearts,open them up. Music is the language of the spirit. Music, evenwithout words, can cut a man in two, and God can get inthere.”Where does the Bible say that music can “cut a man in two”so that God can minister to him? ere can be no soundChristian faith apart from the clear teaching of God’s Word(Rom. 10:17). e Bible is SOLE basis for faith and practice,and there is no scriptural support for using Christian rockmusic to minister to the unsaved. ere is not a hint of such athing in the book of Acts. At the typical Christian rockconcert, one cannot even understand the words of the songsunless he is already familiar with them. Young people don’tattend Bon Jovi concerts to hear the gospel, and Deliriousdoesn’t clearly preach the gospel at such concerts. Yet it is thegospel of Jesus Christ, and that only, which is the power ofGod unto salvation, not vaguely-worded Christian rock songsperformed by people who are committed to looking andsounding as much like the world as possible.Doerksen, BrianBrian Doerksen, author of “From Everlasting to Everlasting(You Are God),” is affiliated with the Vineyard churches ofCanada.See “John Wimber and the Vineyard Churches” in thisDirectory for more information.Dorsey, omasIn 1999 CCM Magazine labeled omas Dorsey a majorpioneer of contemporary Christian music. “It’s entirelyarguable that Christian music would not exist if it were notfor the Rev. omas A. Dorsey” (om Granger, “Say ‘Amen,’Somebody, omas Dorsey Remembered,” CCM Magazine,July 1999, p. 12).85